The Labor enquirer., 1887-07-16
VOTE FOR YOURSELF.
What the Miners Of Colorado Ought 20 DO
In the Fall.
FOR the Enquirer.


great social problem of our time-th
labor question-would be brought to
peaceable termination and settlemen
cannot but feel their faith and hope in |
peaceable settlement give way to con
siderable extent ms they study the lessor
OF the late elections.
Previous to the formation of the Labol
Party il has been the continual cry of thu
press prostitutes in the employ of tn,
rich, that the methods of the people tt
gain freedVm in the lands of the Ole
World, were not necessary in this country
that here the poorest citizen enjoyed the
powerful and proud privilege of the right
of franchise; that no grievance could be
made permanent yoke on any citizen
Long .windcd editorials on the beauties OF
the ballot have filed the columns of the
capitalistic press whenever workingmen
limited that stronger remedies we're neces.
sary to improve their condition.
The paid hirelings Of the daily subsi.
died capitalistic press have until very
recently devoted column after column to
prove that the only weapon which the
workingman should use was the ballot.
The workingmen have taken them at
their word and have unanimously con-
cluded that the ballot should have fair,
free and thorough trial. As result of
our conclusions in this regard, we, the
workingmeu Of the United States, bave
had printed our own ballots and have set
vigorously and determinedly at work to
place them where we think they will do
the most good. We have followed the ad-
vice of the capitalistic press, and
what il the result on the part of the
latterY
No sooner had we made preparations to
carry out the suggestion of the press
prostitutes than they raise the cry of An.
arohy! Communism! Socialism,! Blood
Red Destruction! Red Flag and National
Chaos!
They call on the pulpit, the politicians
and parasites OF labor in general, to join
hands and ignore old party lines and
unite to cru'h the uprising Of the scum,
the rabble, the mudsills, the Anarchists,
the Socialists, the Communists. the lower
classes, the dangerous classes,-the work
ingmen.
What does this all prove. It proves
that the capitalistic, prostitute press lied,
as II is paid to, when il advised working
men to use the ballot TO better their con-
dition.
II means further that there il to-day
in these United States but two political
parties, the democratic<epublica and
the United Labor Party; the former
unitss to perpetuate the reign Of fraud
and boodleism and the latter united to
wrest this fair land from the grasp Of the
thieves and boodlers who are steering its
ship Of state into the vortex Of the whirl-
pool which has dashed to atoms the old
and once great and grand empires and
republics Of the past.
All patriotic Americans hope that the
emancipation of labor can be accom-
plised without turmoil and bloodshed.
Men who, through the four bloody years
between Sumptsr and AppomsttoI, fol-
lowed and fought under the starry flag
are taunted and accursed by the men who
staid at home when our country was we'll
nigh in the throes Of dissolution. They
the men who fought the bloody battles
are taunted with the accusation that they
are dynamiters and anarchists when they
form party of their own and endeavor to
obvia,c the necessity of another sangui-
nary struggle TO free the wage slaves Of
to-day. =
The mission Of the United Labor Party
is to save our country from u danger all
men can foresee; and the danger is not
afar of. Yet no sooner had il come into
the political arena, and had suffered a
partial defeat, than howl of pleasure
arose from the pulpit hypocrites, the press
parasites and the Powderly prostitutes.
The tactics adopted to defeat the party
NE wealth'producers are such MS to
doubt the possibility of la
peacefully work on,
''ics are the
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